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Thread #16144   Message #149065
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
13-Dec-99 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Will the Turtle Be Unbroken? (Les Barker)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Will the turtle be unbroken?
Debbie McClatchy (is that spelt right?) sang it at Sidmouth and Fleetwood this summer on her trip over to England. I don't know if she's recorded it or not. She does it great - and she sings it as "Moitle" and "Toitle", which somehow makes it funnier.

Les Barker is the most painful performer I know.I mean, he is the only one who makes me laugh so that it physically hurts. He can work an audience like noopne I have ever seen - I've been at performances where he is ten minutes without saying a word, and hardly moving a muscle. Just somehow getting the audience to break up into hysterics. Of course he learnt most of that from the later lamented Mrs Ackroyd, his dog.